The Post had no overwhelming bias against Moore, and it exercised skepticism and thoroughness in reporting an allegation brought to its attention. The resulting part series, published in , was nearly awarded a Pulitzer Prize until the board, spurred by objections by Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee, blocked the honor on the grounds that its methods were too unethical to merit an award. The profession has yet to chisel the accepted rules of undercover reporting into stone, but a consensus has formed in recent decades that basically prohibits the direct telling of lies to get a story.
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So, when presumed Veritas operative Jaime Phillips allegedly lied to the Post about Moore getting her pregnant, and urged the reporters to write the story, she crossed the line. Reporters have posed as high school students, enlisted in the Ku Klux Klan, faked insanity to be admitted into mental hospitals and donned disguises while chasing stories.
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Jessica Mitford repeatedly pretended to be shopping for funeral services for a dying aunt while doing the research for The American Way of Death. Such underhanded practices are largely frowned upon these days as unethical.
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But lying is often the lazy, unimaginative way to get the story. Did ABC News producers need to lie on their Food Lion job applications giving false references and misstating their educational and employment backgrounds? A second kosher rule of undercover reporting dictates that a reporter may not create the very conditions he then exposes. In the Silverstein and Mirage Tavern examples, journalists created opportunities for unethical and criminal behavior that might not otherwise exist. A less morally compromised version of the Mirage story would have had the Sun-Times detecting the same crimes but with bars not owned by the paper.
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Undercover Lies by Stephen H. Stacy, helped by the god who later takes the name Apollo, amuses herself by waging her own private war against a nation known as the Amiotrites. In this second installment to the prequel for the Return of the Gods series, follow Stacy, the Green Witch, in her battles.
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Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Jan 20, J. Lewis rated it it was amazing. Stephen H King's Undercover Lies was my introduction to the world of the ancient Gods and the cataclysmic events and wars that they seem to gravitate towards. The casting of two black actors in the lead roles of a mainstream drama has prompted some debate at a time when the institutional racism of the dramatic arts is under scrutiny. Much of the story concerns racism, and Okonedo took an active role in the development of the character, so Undercover is less an example of colourblind casting than it is a story which validates the experience of black Britons.
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Except that when I think about television history and how few lead black characters there have been, it does seem sad. There should be a lot more dramas that are not either of those two things. A beautiful brooch suggests sophisticated ancient Britons. When documentary reconstructs deadly real life stories. Six secrets from the history of British animation.
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Peter Moffat on making a drama out of a lie. Sophie Okonedo and Adrian Lester play a seemingly happily married couple in Undercover. There is a prisoner on death row in Louisiana, played by Dennis Haysbert. And there is a lawyer, a British lawyer, played by Sophie Okonedo, who is battling to save him. All the aspects of the international suspense drama are in place. Dennis Haysbert as Rudy Jones.